Yama (the Pit) is the first monument to the victims of the Holocaust in the USSR, on which it was allowed to make an inscription in Yiddish. Here on March 2, 1942, about 5,000 prisoners of the Minsk ghetto were shot by the Nazis.
Now the monument is represented by a bronze sculptural composition, which is called «The Last Way». It is located along the steps leading to the center of memorial and shows us a group of doomed martyrs descending to the bottom of the pit.